Many times we are in need of knowing detailed Computer hardware configuration for various purposes such as to get right driver, debugging, to prepare system information report, etc. In linux many such tools are available in command line. Here I am trying to list down three tools which I know. They are hwinfo, lshw and [...]
While I was watching the below youtube clip, I was not able to control my passion to try it out. This is actually a do it yourself cheap touch pad for your computer. This is a touch pad made with a good web cam, card board box and open source touchlib library. I was trying to get [...]
Many Business laptop models equipped with Fingerprint Sensor. Though it is not considered as good security system for a laptop login, still some specific applications utilize this feature for identification and authentication. My Sony laptop VGN-CS15GN/B is having Upek Fingerprint sensor. In this case my OS is Fedora 13 64bit. By default Fedora supports Fingerprint [...]
Recently I got a DisplayLink based 7" USB Monitor manufactured by Lilliput. The model is UM-70, which supports 800x480 resolution. It works without any external power. It takes power and graphics data from USB port. It has built-in Graphics chip from DisplayLink. Here is how I got it working in Ubuntu 10.04. Step-1. Fresh Ubuntu [...]
I just thought of comparing browsers I have installed in my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop. Here is the Acid test results for all four major browsers Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Epiphany. Firefox is powered by Gecko engine, Chrome and Epiphany powered by WebKit engine and Opera by Presto. Here is an introduction for Acid test in Wiki: [...]
Are you a 24x7 command line guy? Chances of not switching to X console in your linux distro are more for you. Here is a command line weather report tool for you. This tool helps you to plan for your week-end trip while you are compiling some junks. It is easy to get it. Here [...]
In UNIX/Linux world, it is common to connect to remote machine through Secure shell (SSH). But in Windows world, we depend too much on Remote Desktop Connection (RDP). But except Windows Servers, Windows workstations such as Windows XP does not support multiple simultaneous login to a Windows XP machine. This drawback can be managed to [...]
Are you bored with limited features of screenshot tool in your linux distro? Here is the Shutter, an advanced screenshot tool. It is a must tool for any technology blogger and technical writer. It has amazing features defined as below by the project itself. This post is to introduce this wonderful tool to the community. [...]
Though I prefer GMail web interface, still many people use desktop mail client for other advantages such as multiple account handling. To do this you need to sync your contacts in GMail with Desktop mail client. This simple HOW-TO talks about getting it done this with Thunderbird Add-on called Zindus. Here I am using Thunderbird [...]
GIMP is an open source Image editing tool. There is a feature to create a slide show in GIMP with the output as Animated GIF format. It can be done in a few mouse clicks. My system is Ubuntu 10.04 with GIMP 2.6.8. Here is the step by step tutorial on this. Step-1: GIMP -> [...]
GoogleCL is a project intended to access Google services from Linux command line. Uploading the pictures to Picasa Web Album is one such service. Though the intention of this project is to make the services easily accessible from command line, I have written a simple GUI wrapper script to make this service available from GUI [...]
